Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

13.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

14.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

15.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

16.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

17.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

18.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

19.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

20.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

21.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

22.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

23.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

25.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

26.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

27.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

28.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

29.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

31.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

32.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

35.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

36.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

37.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

38.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

39.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

40.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

41.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

42.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

43.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

44.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

47.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

48.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

49.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

50.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon